QA Specialist - Specialist Pharmacy Service

NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Liverpool seeks a Quality Assurance Specialist to join their Hub team. This role supports the safe and high-quality supply of medicines, focusing on audit, project management, and best practice guidance. Ideal candidates will have experience in Quality Assurance and a commitment to improving patient outcomes. Flexible remote working options available.

Qualifications

• Experience in Quality Assurance within a healthcare setting.
• Strong understanding of medicines optimisation principles.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a team.

Responsibilities

• Deliver a range of specialist Quality Assurance duties.
• Audit unlicensed aseptic units.
• Provide advice and support to teams.
• Develop best practice guidance.
• Manage projects and ensure timely delivery.
• Conduct workforce training and development.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Project Management

Training Development

Auditing

Communication

Job description

This vacancy is for the Specialist Pharmacy Service, based at the Pharmacy Practice Unit (PPU). The PPU is a service hosted by Liverpool University Hospitals.

The SPS Quality Assurance team are seeking to recruit a highly motivated, enthusiastic and forward thinking individual to join our Hub team based at the Pharmacy Practice Unit in Liverpool.

The Quality Assurance Specialist will work as part of a national team in delivering successful patient outcomes by ensuring medicines that are bought, prepared and supplied in the NHS are evidenced based, safe, and are of high quality. This will involve working closely with the pharmaceutical Industry and NHS manufacturing and preparation units.

Duties

• To deliver a range of specialist Quality Assurance duties as part of North the North West Pharmaceutical Quality Assurance team relating to:
• Audit of unlicensed aseptic units.
• Provision of advice and support.
• Development of best practice guidance.
• Quality assessment of medicines.
• Project management & delivery.
• Workforce training & development.

The Specialist Pharmacy Service’s (SPS) national Quality Assurance Service supports the principles of medicines optimisation by developing and championing best practice and by ensuring continuous improvement through the implementation of quality risk management systems in NHS medicines manufacturing & preparation and NHS supply chain management.

The post will be hosted by Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with remote working facilitating candidates to reside anywhere in the NW Region and beyond.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mark Jackson
Job title: SPS QA Function Lead
Email address: [e-mail]
Telephone number: 07887804621

Preferred method of contact is via email. Appointments by arrangement with Faye Black (PA) [e-mail]